Note: The Japanese title of this story, 1973年のピンボール, is transcribed as Sen-kyūhyaku-nanajū-nan-nen no pinbōru in the Revised Hepburn notation, and means literally "pinball of the year 1973". It is composed of 1973年, sen-kyūhyaku-nanajū-nan-nen, "the year 1973", の, no, "of" and ピンボール, pinbōru, the phonetic rendition of the word pinball in kana.